Senior Artificial Intelligence Engineer (7-11 yrs)

Title : AI Engineer

Seniority : Senior

Location : Noida, India

Description & Requirements

Position Summary

The Senior AI Engineer with GenAI expertise is responsible for developing advanced technical solutions, integrating cutting-edge generative AI technologies. This role requires a deep understanding of modern technical and cloud-native practices, AI, DevOps, and machine learning technologies, particularly in generative models. You will support a wide range of customers through the "Ideation to MVP" journey, showcasing leadership and decision-making abilities while tackling complex challenges.

Key Responsibilities :

Technical & Engineering Leadership :

- Develop solutions leveraging GenAI technologies, integrating advanced AI capabilities into cloud-native architectures to enhance system functionality and scalability.

- Lead the design and implementation of GenAI-driven applications, ensuring seamless integration with microservices and container-based environments.

- Create solutions that fully leverage the capabilities of modern microservice and container-based environments running in public, private, and hybrid clouds.

- Contribute to thought leadership across the Cloud Native domain with an expert understanding of open-source technologies (e.g., Kubernetes/CNCF) and partner technologies.

- Collaborate on joint technical projects with partners, including Google, Microsoft, AWS, IBM, Red Hat, Intel, Cisco, and Dell/VMware.

Service Delivery :

- Engineer innovative GenAI solutions from ideation to MVP, ensuring high performance and reliability within cloud-native frameworks.

- Optimize AI models for deployment in cloud environments, balancing efficiency and effectiveness to meet client requirements and industry standards.

- Assess existing complex solutions and recommend appropriate technical treatments to transform applications with cloud-native/12-factor characteristics.

- Refactor existing solutions to implement a microservices-based architecture.

Innovation & Initiative :

- Drive the adoption of cutting-edge GenAI technologies within cloud-native projects, spearheading initiatives that push the boundaries of AI integration in cloud services.

- Engage in technical innovation and support position as an industry leader.

- Author whitepapers, blogs, and speak at industry events.

- Maintain hands-on technical credibility, stay ahead of industry trends, and mentor others.

Client Relationships :

- Provide expert guidance to clients on incorporating GenAI and machine learning into their cloud-native systems, ensuring best practices and strategic alignment with business goals.

- Conduct workshops and briefings to educate clients on the benefits and applications of GenAI, establishing strong, trust-based relationships.

- Perform a trusted advisor role, contributing to technical projects (PoCs and MVPs) with a strong focus on technical excellence and on-time delivery.

Mandatory Skills & Experience :

- A passionate developer with 10+ years of experience in Java, Python, Node.js, and Spring programming, comfortable working as part of a paired/balanced team.

- Extensive experience in software development, with significant exposure to AI/ML technologies.

- Expertise in GenAI frameworks : Proficient in using GenAI frameworks and libraries such as LangChain, OpenAI API, Gemini, and Hugging Face Transformers.

- Prompt engineering : Experience in designing and optimizing prompts for various AI models to achieve desired outputs and improve model performance.

- Strong understanding of NLP techniques and tools, including tokenization, embeddings, transformers, and language models.

- Proven experience developing complex solutions that leverage cloud-native technologies-featuring container-based, microservices-based approaches; based on applying 12-factor principles to application engineering.

- Exemplary verbal and written communication skills (English).

- Positive and solution-oriented mindset.

- Solid experience delivering Agile and Scrum projects in a Jira-based project management environment.

- Proven leadership skills and the ability to inspire and manage teams.

Desired Skills & Experience :

- Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) : Experience in deploying, monitoring, and maintaining AI models in production environments using MLOps practices.

- Data engineering for AI : Skilled in data preprocessing, feature engineering, and creating pipelines to feed AI models with high-quality data.

- AI model fine-tuning : Proficiency in fine-tuning pre-trained models on specific datasets to improve performance for specialized tasks.

- AI ethics and bias mitigation : Knowledgeable about ethical considerations in AI and experienced in implementing strategies to mitigate bias in AI models.

- Knowledgeable about vector databases, LLMs, and SMLs, and integrating with such models.

- Proficient with Kubernetes and other cloud-native technologies, including experience with commercial Kubernetes distributions (e.g., Red Hat OpenShift, VMware Tanzu, Google Anthos, Azure AKS, Amazon EKS, Google GKE).

- Deep understanding of core practices including DevOps, SRE, Agile, Scrum, XP, Domain-Driven Design, and familiarity with the CNCF open-source community.

- Recognized with multiple cloud and technical certifications at a professional level, ideally including AI/ML specializations from providers like Google, Microsoft, AWS, Linux Foundation, IBM, or Red Hat.

Verifiable Certification :

- At least one recognized cloud professional / developer certification (AWS/Google/Microsoft)